Business Area Sourcing Specialist

Company Description
At Business area Living Room, we are a diverse group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”. We develop safe and affordable products for a beautiful, playful and more convenient life at home. Everything we do is based on a spirit of togetherness and enthusiasm, and now we are looking for someone who share our positive attitude and values.
Do you want to lead sourcing activities and engage in product development together with Product & Range teams? Do you want to belong to and influence the result of a global market leading company in a truly global environment? If yes, this might be the perfect challenge for you! At IKEA of Sweden we develop and make the IKEA range available to stores and customers all over the world. Within the responsibilities of IKEA of Sweden lies the development, sourcing, supply and strategy of IKEAs global range.
We’re looking for a Business Area Sourcing Specialist for Living Room Range, come and join our great team where we are working together, taking part and wanting to make a difference.
Job Description
In the Business Area Sourcing Specialist role, you will have a great opportunity to influence the development of our range, cooperating with business teams across the Supply organization and together contributing towards the business goals. You will influence how we optimize our value chain and enable development of better products and service at lower total cost for the many people.
Your daily tasks will include:
Responsibility to secure supplier, supply chain perspective in new products and improvements projects
Secure material selection in line with Home Furnishing Business (HFB) material roadmaps, and that supplier manufacturing capabilities are taken into account in NEWs and Improves projects
Secure that agreed sourcing goals/deliverables, strategic movements are deployed in reality through the development of better products
Enable collaboration across the supply chain by providing input to different stakeholders and acting on opportunities and deviations supporting the wished movements from a HFB perspective.
Responsibility to secure input and preconditions from the HFB to the Category, in order for the Category to define optimal global sourcing set-up for NEWs and Improves
Responsibility to conclude business case based on global optimal sourcing set-up
Be the gearbox between Business Area and Category for operational or tactical discussions
Responsibility to lead and secure the supply chain perspective of the pricing process
Contribute to HFB Portfolio Planning and input to briefing of new projects.
Contribute or take ownership for Supply Chain Collaboration activities

Qualifications
To succeed & shine in this role, we wish that you:
Have experience within related field such as Product development, Sourcing or Procurement, Project leadership within Business or Product development or Purchasing and Business development
Have material and production knowledge and have an understanding on cost drivers in production and materials
Are strongly business driven and result oriented
Are proactive and take initiative to find the business set-up
Have knowledge of value chain and value chain analysis
Have the capability to lead with a holistic view, always having customer, supplier, and total cost in mind
Can lead and deliver results through own competence and involving and engaging others, independent of location
Are able to lead and contribute in projects
Have capability to analyze and draw conclusions from a total business perspective
Know how to perform risk assessment and scenario planning

Additional information
This position is based in Älmuhlt, Sweden.
If you have any questions about the position or the recruitment process, please contact Zuzana Vackova, People & Culture Recruiter at Zuzana.vackova1@inter.ikea.com.
If you feel you could be the one we are looking for, please send us your application in English until 26th September.
Älmhult is an inspirational working environment, based on creativity and innovation, which gives you the opportunity to work and interact with people from all around the world. Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö, and an IKEA shuttle bus running back and forth to Helsingborg two times a day.